Taliban planning Karachi attacks arrested PESHAWAR: A suicide bomber blew himself up close to a police van in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, killing six people and wounding 17 others, police said. The blast took place in Bannu close to the Afghan border, said officer Nawaz Khan. Police officer Iftikar Khan said one of the six victims was a police officer, while the rest were civilians. A spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility. Pakistani police said they arrested four Taliban militants on Tuesday who were planning “terror attacks” in the prosperous financial hub Karachi. The four members of main militant umbrella group, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), were arrested during a police raid in the Sohrab Goth area of southern port city, senior police official Omar Shahid told a press conference. “The police are interrogating the four men, Amanuddin Munnoo, Ehsan Ullah, Barkat Ullah and Umer Sohrab, who had recently arrived in Karachi from North Waziristan tribal region. They have told us that Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud sent them to Karachi to launch terror attacks,” Shahid said. Three suicide jackets, rifles, pistols and explosives had been recovered in the raid, he said.
